Les visages de la « Russafrique »
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00:00 Like us, Russia has been suffering for too long, but with dignity and courage,
00:06 a war that does not say its name, orchestrated by the oligarchy of the West.
00:11 But we are not coming to Russia to look for new masters who will be replaced by the old.
00:16 Kémy Séba, Nathalie Yambe, these are the most media faces of Russia-Africa.
00:22 But others have emerged in recent years.
00:25 These influencers, politicians or businessmen are the relays of Russia on the continent,
00:31 their enemy, France and more broadly the West.
00:35 I therefore present myself in front of you, as an African voice,
00:42 who carries in his DNA the blows received, the persecutions suffered
00:48 by the political, economic, psychological, and pluripolar violator of Africa
00:55 that constitutes the Western elite, and more precisely, the French government.
01:02 Born in Strasbourg, Kémy Séba is Franco-Beninois.
01:06 In 2004, he founded a black, extremist and anti-Semitic group, the K-Tribe.
01:12 Dissolved in 2006 for incitement to racial hatred.
01:16 He then settled in Senegal, where he promotes his vision of Pan-Africanism,
01:22 an Africa that is rid of all Western influence.
01:26 He was eventually expelled from the country after burning a 5,000 franc bill.
01:32 In 2018, he joined the Russian paramilitary group Wagner.
01:37 According to a Young Africa survey, between 2018 and 2019,
01:41 he would have touched more than 400,000 euros from the militia chief, Evgeny Prigojin.
01:47 Nathalie Ames presents herself as the Lady of Sochi
01:51 since the first summit Russia-Africa in October 2019.
01:55 She says a remarkable speech.
01:58 "French-speaking Africa is still today, in October 2019, under the control of France."
02:06 In 2019, the influencer returns to Switzerland where she was born,
02:11 after being expelled from Ivory Coast.
02:13 She was a member of the opposition party Leader,
02:16 whose president is one of the pioneers of French politics in Africa.
02:21 Justin Tagout is a former Cameroonian journalist.
02:29 He is also the founder of the Pan-African channel, Afrique Media TV.
02:34 "Afrique Media, target of the French government,
02:37 accused of being intelligent with Russia to harm its interests in Africa.
02:43 Nothing more than that."
02:44 Openly anti-French and pro-Russian,
02:47 the channel is, according to Justin Tagout, in service of the liberation of Africa.
02:53 "We saw how French law completely destroyed the Libyan state.
03:03 As a result, the jihadists were exterminated all over the continent.
03:08 The impact was direct.
03:10 It was the crisis in Central Africa and Mali."
03:13 This Ivorian, several times minister,
03:16 was the last spokesman for Laurent Gbagbo when he was still president.
03:21 Exiled after the post-electoral crisis of 2010-2011,
03:25 he was appointed special advisor to Alfa Condé in 2017.
03:29 It was in Guinea that he began working with Russia.
03:33 At the fall of the Guinean president,
03:35 he became a consultant on African files for the Russian patron.
03:39 With the Kremlin's support,
03:41 Awadon Melo became in 2022 the representative of the BRICS group for Central and Western Africa.
03:48 "The new situation came from the end of Barkhane,
03:54 placing Mali before the accomplished fact
03:57 and exposing it to a kind of abandonment in the middle of the flight.
04:01 It led us to explore ways and means to better secure security
04:06 autonomously with other partners."
04:10 Shogel Maïga is the first Malian minister.
04:14 In the 1970s, he studied engineering in telecommunications in the Soviet Union.
04:20 Three times presidential candidate,
04:22 admirer of the dictator Moussa Traoré
04:26 and supporter of Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta,
04:29 he has been an ally of the military since the two coups in Mali
04:33 and displays an anti-colonialist and populist line.
04:38 "We work with the Russian state.
04:41 We have Russian instructors who are with our officers."
04:44 "The word Wagner is what the French say.
04:46 We don't know Wagner."
04:48 In this letter from 2018,
04:53 Mouna Douamba addresses Jean-Yves Le Drian,
04:56 French Minister of Defence.
04:58 "What is the problem if Russia intervenes
05:00 to establish peace in the Central African Republic?"
05:03 This communicant, of Burkina Faso origin,
05:06 arrived at the Central African primacy in 2018.
05:09 Seven years earlier, he had created the NGO "Aimons Notre Afrique",
05:14 whose communication subsidiary, Anacom,
05:17 is funded by Lobay Invest, a large company of the Wagner Group.
05:21 "You are going to say that this anti-French sentiment is driven by Russia?
05:24 You will understand that even children speak of France negatively."
05:27 In the summer of 2022, he created a disinformation agency on social networks.
05:32 His method? Using fake accounts to publish pro-Russian and anti-French content.
05:38 Pictures of Tsar Nicholas II, Moscow or Russian culture.
05:47 They are hosted on the website of a new organization,
05:50 whose goal is to bring together Russian speakers
05:53 and friends of the Russian language in Africa.
05:56 Emil Parfessimbe launched it discreetly in January 2023.
06:01 This man from Cameroon is at the origin of one of the biggest
06:06 cryptocurrency scams.
06:08 Pursued in several countries and aimed at a mandate to be brought to Cameroon,
06:12 he fled his country in 2022 and took refuge in Central Africa.
06:16 Since then, he has been regularly in Russia.
06:19 Four years after Sochi, Russia has extended its influence
06:25 on the African continent through its relays.
06:29 On July 27 and 28, 2023, a new summit will be held,
06:33 Russia-Africa in St. Petersburg.
06:36 It should give another dynamic to the relationship
06:39 and, who knows, bring new faces to the face of Russia-Africa.
06:44 Russian Federation of Central African Republics
06:47 Russian Federation of Central African Republics